Meyer (surname)

Meyer Definition: From the Middle High German word "meiger," meaning "higher or superior," often used for stewards of landholders or great farmers or leaseholders - today a Meier is a dairy farmer. Meier and Meyer are used more often in Northern Germany, while Maier and Mayer are found more frequently in Southern Germany.

People

• Adolf Meyer (architect) (1881–1921), architect
• Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840–1911) German ornithologist
• Albert Gregory Meyer (1903–1965), Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago
• Albert Meyer (politician) (1870–1953), Swiss politician
• Alfred Meyer (1891–1945), German Nazi official
• Anthony Meyer (1920–2004), British soldier, diplomat, and Conservative Party politician
• Bernard Meyer, French equestrian
• Bernard S. Meyer (1916–2005), New York judge
• Bernhard Meyer (1767–1836), German physician and naturalist
• Bertrand Meyer (born 1950), French computer scientist, designed the Eiffel programming language
• Bill Meyer (artist) (born 1942), Australian artist
• Bob Meyer (born 1939), American baseball player
• Breckin Meyer (born 1974), U.S. actor and producer
• Cameron Meyer (born 1988), Australian professional racing cyclist
• Christopher Meyer (born 1944), former British Ambassador to the U.S.
• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898), Swiss poet and writer
• Christian Meyer (born 1969), German track cyclist
• Dakota Meyer (born 1988), U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
• Daniel P. Meyer (born 1965), a federal whistleblowing advocate
• Debbie Meyer (born 1952), U.S. Olympic swimmer
• Dina Meyer (born 1968), U.S. actor
• Dirk Meyer, U.S. microprocessor designer
• Drew Meyer (born 1981), American baseball player
• Edgar Meyer (born 1960), U.S. double bassist
• Eduard Meyer (1855–1930), German historian
• Edward C. Meyer (born 1928) U.S. Army General, former Army Chief of Staff
• Eric Meyer, U.S. web designer and author of books on Cascading Style Sheets
• Erna Meyer (1899–1999) creator of Erna Meyer dolls
• Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1791–1858), German botanist and historian of botany
• Ernst Hermann Meyer (1905–1988), German composer, pianist, and musicologist
• Eugene Meyer (1875–1959), U.S. public official and newspaper publisher
• Frank Meyer (political philosopher) (1909–1972), U.S. conservative political philosopher
• Fred G. Meyer (1886–1978), U.S. retailer
• Frederick Brotherton Meyer (1847–1929), British Baptist preacher
• George Meyer (born 1956) U.S. TV comedy writer
• George Meyer (soccer), American soccer coach
• George von Lengerke Meyer (1858–1918), U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Greg Meyer (born 1955), American long-distance runner
• Hannes Meyer (1889–1954), Swiss architect and director of the Bauhaus
• Hans Meyer (1858–1929), Austrian geographer and mountaineer
• Hans Horst Meyer (1853–1939), German physician and pharmacologist
• Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (1800–1873), German Protestant pastor and theologian
• Helga Meyer (1942–2000), German opera singer
• Henry Meyer (1840–1925), Pennsylvanian poet
• Henry Albert Meyer (1894–1968), philatelist of Indiana
• Jacob O. Meyer, Directing Elder of the Assemblies of Yahweh
• Jean Jacques Meyer (1804–1877), French locomotive designer
• Joachim Meyer, German fencer, wrote Fundamental Descriptions of the Art of Fencing (1570)
• Johan Meyer (died 1901), German-born pioneer of the Queensland Gold Coast
• Johannes Meyer (1884–1972), Danish film actor
• John Meyer (disambiguation)
• John C. Meyer (1919–1975), U.S. air force officer
• Joseph Meyer (publisher) (1796–1856), German industrialist and publisher
• Joseph Meyer (songwriter) (1894–1987), American songwriter
• Joyce Meyer (born 1943), U.S. Christian Charismatic speaker and writer
• Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist
• Karl Meyer (activist), American pacifist, activist, Catholic worker and tax resister
• Karl E. Meyer, American journalist
• Karl F. Meyer, Swiss-born American pathologist
• Kirstine Meyer (1861–1941), Danish physicist
• Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), Polish composer
• Kurt Meyer (High Commissioner), New Zealand representative in the Cook Islands
• Kurt Meyer (Lucerne) (born 1944), Swiss politician
• Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer) (1910–1961), German officer in the Waffen-SS
• Laurenz Meyer (born 1948), German politician
• Mark Meyer (Wisconsin politician) (born 1963), U.S. politician
• Marshall Meyer (1930–1993), U.S. rabbi and human rights activist
• Nicholas Meyer (born 1945), U.S. film-maker
• Paul Meyer (philologist) (1840–1917), French philologist
• Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003), French mathematician
• Ray Meyer (1913–2006), U.S. basketball coach
• Rémo Meyer (born 1980), Swiss football (soccer) player
• Roelf Meyer (born 1947), former South African politician
• Russ Meyer (1922–2004), U.S. filmmaker
• Sabine Meyer (born 1959), German clarinetist
• Seth Meyers, American comedian on Saturday Night Live
• Stephen C. Meyer, U.S. theologian and "Intelligent Design" proponent
• Stephenie Meyer, U.S. author best known for the "Twilight" series
• Sven Meyer (born 1970), German footballer
• Thérèse Meyer (born 1948), Swiss politician
• Urban Meyer (born 1964), U.S. American football coach
• Viktor Meyer (1848–1897), German chemist
• Wilhelm Meyer (physician) (1824–1895), Danish physician, discovered adenoids and invented adenoidectomy
• Yves Meyer (born 1939), French mathematician and scientist

See also

• Meyer (disambiguation)
• Von Meyer, Myer, Meyr, Meier, Meijer, Meir, Mayer, Maier, Mayr, Mair
• Meyers, Myers
• Meyerson, Myerson
• German family name etymology